Chris Haslam (born 27 May 1974 in

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) is a British

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coach and former player. He played at the

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in the mid 1990s. He has spent spells all over

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, with

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in Greece,

RBC Verviers-Pepinster Royal Basketball Club Pepinster is a Belgian basketball club that is located in the Verviers-Pepinster area of Liège Province, Belgium. The club currently competes in the Belgian Fifth Division, the fifth tier of Belgian basketball. Before, the t ...

and

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in Belgium,

Mitteldeutscher BC Mitteldeutscher Basketball Club (), for sponsorship reasons named SYNTAINICS MBC, and commonly known as simply MBC, is a professional basketball club based in Weißenfels, Germany. The club currently plays in the Basketball Bundesliga, the first ...

in Germany and for the last three seasons,

Pallacanestro Messina Pallacanestro Messina was an Italian professional basketball team based in Messina, Sicily. History Established in 1976, the club was admitted to the first division Serie A for the 2003-04 season after Virtus Bologna was excluded for financial i ...

Teramo Basket Teramo Basket was a professional basketball club that is based in Teramo, Italy. Established in 1960, Teramo played in the Serie A (basketball), Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), Italy's top league, for 10 years before they were moved to the Serie B. Th ...

and Basket Trapani in Italy. He also played for

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in the

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. He was an assistant coach at

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from 2013-2023, helping the Bobcats to the 2022 and 2023 Big Sky tournament Championships. After Montana State, Haslam became an assistant coach at

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. While at Utah State, Haslam helped the Aggies win an outright Mountain West title in the 2023-24 season. Haslam is now an assistant at Oregon State Beavers men’s basketball

References

1974 births Living people Wyoming Cowboys basketball players Apollon Patras B.C. players RBC Pepinster players Mitteldeutscher BC players Liège Basket players Basket Livorno players Teramo Basket players Mersey Tigers players Pallacanestro Trapani players English men's basketball players English basketball coaches British basketball players British basketball coaches {{UK-basketball-bio-stub